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Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.
I've a kinship with women. That's why I've always put women in strong positions in music.
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They're all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.
I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to... we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it's Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine - our music doesn't always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair.